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Global Warming Past The Point of No Return
mad_goldfish writes "The UK's Independent is running a front page story today on a scientific report claiming that global warming is now unstoppable, after measuring changes in the level of ice in the arctic." From the article: "The greatest fear is that the Arctic has reached a 'tipping point' beyond which nothing can reverse the continual loss of sea ice and with it the massive land glaciers of Greenland, which will raise sea levels dramatically. Satellites monitoring the Arctic have found that the extent of the sea ice this August has reached its lowest monthly point on record, dipping an unprecedented 18.2 per cent below the long-term average." Either way, someone wins a bet.
If only President Clinton had ratified the Kyoto Protocol, this would never have happened.
"I have never won a debate with an ignorant person." -Ali ibn Abi Talib
Then again why should we take the opinion of a bunch of people foolish enough to live below sea level, and right on the cost.
Are you blaming Katrina on global warming?
Wow, liberals are dumber than I thought. Either that or global warming has been happening sense well before recorded history.
Hurricanes are not a new thing.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
The politically oriented ones are by and large on the far right. Notice there is no-one denying global warming outside america? That's because the US is the only place you get that kind of ultra-right-wing every-man-for-himself politics.
I am trolling
According to wikipedia...
Is it just me, or does anyone else get a small case of the hives when that's how a comment starts? Of course, people who say that hopefully mean, "According to a person who posted something on Wikipedia, and the persistent people who agree with him..." - but it's looking more and more as though people are treating that overgrown blog like a credibly peer-reviewed, scientific-method-powered, authoritative entity that has collected The Truth And Facts on... everything.
Of course, there's no reason not to trust a web site that also profiles porn stars, fishing lures, bad sitcoms, acne, beer brewing, and the history of toenail clippers as an indisputable source of climatalogical analysis. Oh wait, yes there is.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Yes, but can you re-write the flamewar in any other language than BASIC? That invites a flame war in-and-of itself.
Let's see the flame war in your favorite programming language, Slashdotters!
What those who want activist courts fear is rule by the people.
Flamebate? I don't think so.
That would, indeed, be a good way to kill yourself.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
>> "Behold! Moon goddess is eating the sun god....
The difference is we now have empirical measurements that prove beyond a doubt that humans (mostly N.American humans) are directly responsible for global waming.
The real problem is that most Americans won't listen to the facts because it means they'll have to change their lifestyles.
And stop this incessant whining aboout global warming.
No offense, but you are either stupid or a neocon. The second the UN tries to pass a tax law is the same second that the US and pile of other countries pull out of the UN and effectivly destroy it. There is not a sane president in the world that would give an orginization where fucking CHINA and RUSSIA have veto power the ability to tax the US. Who would advocate something so utterly foolish? Either a neocon trying to destroy the UN, or a complete and utter idiot. I have a feeling you are not the former.